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Subject: Re: Guy, AR
From: Geoffrey gmvoeth@...........
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 16:52:20 +0000


Are there any military bases near by that may test munitions ?

Nerve gas will float in the air like a puff of smoke and, in seconds, kill anything which gets in the way.

Just a thought.

geoff

-----Original Message----- 
From: gpayton@.............
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:47 PM
To: psnlist@..............
Subject: Re: Guy, AR




Hi Chris,

Great to see you online again!  The gas idea was only a passing thought on my part.  I know that volcano activity and sometimes oil 
drilling releases pockets of hydrogen sulfide, but I don’t remember of a spontaneous release.  And, like we say, it is heavier than 
air.

These Red-wing Blackbirds fly and roost by the thousands in tight formations.  They sometime look like clouds of undulating and 
changing smoke when flying in the distance.

I saw an TV interview with a Arkansas Game and Wildlife representative yesterday who said that they were looking into the fireworks 
possibility and the birds becoming frightened.  As you may know, here in the U.S. it is a custom sometimes to shoot off fireworks in 
celebration of the New Year.  However, this was a small rural area and I don’t know how much of a fireworks display they may have 
had.  That is questionable in my mind.

I know that in Dallas, Texas there is a park downtown that is a frequent roosting spot for similar type birds.  They reappeared each 
year causing a lot of noise and mess from their droppings, creating a big health hazard.   The city tried using fireworks to 
frighten them away and didn’t work.

However, fireworks were the leading theory, as of last night.

Being a meteorology “nerd”, I also know that tornadoes have cause similar events in the past, even sucking fish from lakes.  There 
WAS a tornado event in Cincinnati, AR that same night.  It was probably more than a hundred miles West of the bird event though. 
The line of storms did move NE and would have probably passed over that area later.  I do not know the exact timeline for each 
occurrence.  As you suggest, lightening or hail is a possibility too.  I’ve heard not mention of that occurring at the time, but is 
another theory.

I suspect it will be one of those “strange events of nature” which we never know for sure and have only theories.  I think that I 
will drop the subject for fear of confirming that I may be a “bird-brain.”

Best Wishes for the New Year,
Jerry 

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